To bring parents, students and teachers together in finding ways to help enhance the education of the students while outside the classroom.
The empowerment of parents in their efforts to be involved in their children’s education by incorporating their own knowledge in their endeavors.
To help minimize the separation of home and school in providing support for students with homework, in-school activities and individualized projects.
Objectives:
Identify how math, reading and writing are incorporated in the lives of individuals outside of school.
Use technology in the best ways to express how to convey day-to-day activities of an average day at home for the classroom.
Provide examples to students for the understanding of how the use of concepts from the classroom is applied in environments outside the classroom.
Authentic Question:
When and how will I use this skill outside the classroom? The question is an authentic question because it helps students to understand the importance of education and how the activities used in class is preparing them for life in the real world. The skills found in the classroom are useful for many things, some in which can be found in the kitchen at home or may even be transferred into an occupation such as in the culinary arts. This is just one way parents and students can collaborate on an educational project while students are in school or at home using technology as a resource.
Three Classrooms’ Collaboration Activity:
The classroom activity will involve a merging of cultures and diverse backgrounds in the attempt to create a menu for a holiday celebrated by most, New Years Day. Students, with their parents’ involvement, will research and create a menu to feed a specified amount of people. Each classroom will contribute an essential part of the activity through reading, writing and math applications for a combined authentic project with the help of parents. Students will use a wiki and create a work page to collaborate between classrooms with their matched groups from the other two classes. They will also use this wiki for collaboration with their parents. Students, along with their parents, will use a glog to post any visuals or videos they feel may be useful in creating their wiki as an additional online workspace. Cell phones and Ipods may also be used, if available, for an added media for communication.
Each Classroom’s Collaboration:
Reading Class: This class, basically, will focus on the interpretation of the holiday. The reading class will research the holiday of many cultures, the agreed upon dishes. They will determine the importance of the holiday and explain in detail how it is celebrated in that particular culture, what the dishes are and what are the ingredients used in the dishes. They will also determine the utensils and cookware necessary for the creation of the dishes and the procedures used for them.
Writing Class: For this group, the focus will be on description. The writing class will write a description of the dishes to the proposed guests, in a creative, appetizing manner and explain in detail, the ingredients of each. It will incorporate the menu and the explanation of the significance of the dishes for that particular holiday.
Math Class: This class will provide the calculations for the recipe. Most recipes are created for a set number of individuals and this group will have to adjust the measurements in order to feed the set number of people allotted to the event. Students must plan for the recipes by calculating the total ingredients, the amount of drinks the patrons will consume and the amount of time necessary for preparation and cooking.
Equipment:
Computers (preferentially laptops for the classroom)
Overhead projector
Internet connection
Wiki Glog
Step-by-Step Instructional Strategies:
Step 1: Each class will be divided into groups of three in which they will create a wiki for their work. They will then be paired with a group from the other two classes and be required to send an invite to the other two groups in which to collaborate their portion of the project. They will not be required to make changes to the other groups wiki, but only to view and discuss any areas in which there are questions. Every group will use the same wiki to collaborate with their parents.
Step 2: Students will pick the culture of their parents, one in which they have experience, or find an interest in and research the holiday and how it is celebrated.
Step 3: Students will create an introduction page on their wiki to describe the holiday for the culture they have chosen. They may use information found in the wikis of their partners of the paired groups from the other classes as support.
Step 4: Students will place a visual in the wiki of the food they will use for their project. This can be creatively done by using multiple pictures, videos or a visual illustration. Parents can provide additional help by completing a podcast, video or audio recording of the preparation of a dish for students to place in their wiki for their project.
Step 5: This part will be different for each class. All students will find recipes for the meal of their choice. Reading will use the menu to explain in detail how it is celebrated in that particular culture, what the dishes are and what are the ingredients used in the dishes. They will also determine the utensils and cookware necessary for the creation of the dishes and the procedures used for to create them. Writing will use the menu to write a description of the dishes to explain to the proposed guests, in a creative, appetizing manner what the dishes are and explain in detail, the ingredients of each. Mathematics will use the menu to plan for the recipes by calculating the total ingredients, the amount of drinks the patrons will consume and the amount of time necessary for preparation and cooking for a party of 60 individuals.
Step 6: Student will present their project using the projector showing each aspect of their wiki including all attachments and added media.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (by Aretha)
Goals:
To bring parents, students and teachers together in finding ways to help enhance the education of the students while outside the classroom.
The empowerment of parents in their efforts to be involved in their children’s education by incorporating their own knowledge in their endeavors.
To help minimize the separation of home and school in providing support for students with homework, in-school activities and individualized projects.
Objectives:
Identify how math, reading and writing are incorporated in the lives of individuals outside of school.
Use technology in the best ways to express how to convey day-to-day activities of an average day at home for the classroom.
Provide examples to students for the understanding of how the use of concepts from the classroom is applied in environments outside the classroom.
Authentic Question:
When and how will I use this skill outside the classroom? The question is an authentic question because it helps students to understand the importance of education and how the activities used in class is preparing them for life in the real world. The skills found in the classroom are useful for many things, some in which can be found in the kitchen at home or may even be transferred into an occupation such as in the culinary arts. This is just one way parents and students can collaborate on an educational project while students are in school or at home using technology as a resource.
Three Classrooms’ Collaboration Activity:
The classroom activity will involve a merging of cultures and diverse backgrounds in the attempt to create a menu for a holiday celebrated by most, New Years Day. Students, with their parents’ involvement, will research and create a menu to feed a specified amount of people. Each classroom will contribute an essential part of the activity through reading, writing and math applications for a combined authentic project with the help of parents. Students will use a wiki and create a work page to collaborate between classrooms with their matched groups from the other two classes. They will also use this wiki for collaboration with their parents. Students, along with their parents, will use a glog to post any visuals or videos they feel may be useful in creating their wiki as an additional online workspace. Cell phones and Ipods may also be used, if available, for an added media for communication.
Each Classroom’s Collaboration:
Reading Class: This class, basically, will focus on the interpretation of the holiday. The reading class will research the holiday of many cultures, the agreed upon dishes. They will determine the importance of the holiday and explain in detail how it is celebrated in that particular culture, what the dishes are and what are the ingredients used in the dishes. They will also determine the utensils and cookware necessary for the creation of the dishes and the procedures used for them.Writing Class: For this group, the focus will be on description. The writing class will write a description of the dishes to the proposed guests, in a creative, appetizing manner and explain in detail, the ingredients of each. It will incorporate the menu and the explanation of the significance of the dishes for that particular holiday.
Math Class: This class will provide the calculations for the recipe. Most recipes are created for a set number of individuals and this group will have to adjust the measurements in order to feed the set number of people allotted to the event. Students must plan for the recipes by calculating the total ingredients, the amount of drinks the patrons will consume and the amount of time necessary for preparation and cooking.
Equipment:
Computers (preferentially laptops for the classroom)Overhead projector
Internet connection
Wiki
Glog
Step-by-Step Instructional Strategies:
Step 1: Each class will be divided into groups of three in which they will create a wiki for their work. They will then be paired with a group from the other two classes and be required to send an invite to the other two groups in which to collaborate their portion of the project. They will not be required to make changes to the other groups wiki, but only to view and discuss any areas in which there are questions. Every group will use the same wiki to collaborate with their parents.
Step 2: Students will pick the culture of their parents, one in which they have experience, or find an interest in and research the holiday and how it is celebrated.
Step 3: Students will create an introduction page on their wiki to describe the holiday for the culture they have chosen. They may use information found in the wikis of their partners of the paired groups from the other classes as support.
Step 4: Students will place a visual in the wiki of the food they will use for their project. This can be creatively done by using multiple pictures, videos or a visual illustration. Parents can provide additional help by completing a podcast, video or audio recording of the preparation of a dish for students to place in their wiki for their project.
Step 5: This part will be different for each class. All students will find recipes for the meal of their choice.
Reading will use the menu to explain in detail how it is celebrated in that particular culture, what the dishes are and what are the ingredients used in the dishes. They will also determine the utensils and cookware necessary for the creation of the dishes and the procedures used for to create them.
Writing will use the menu to write a description of the dishes to explain to the proposed guests, in a creative, appetizing manner what the dishes are and explain in detail, the ingredients of each.
Mathematics will use the menu to plan for the recipes by calculating the total ingredients, the amount of drinks the patrons will consume and the amount of time necessary for preparation and cooking for a party of 60 individuals.
Step 6: Student will present their project using the projector showing each aspect of their wiki including all attachments and added media.